Taxites

Taxites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TaxeaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 236 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 15 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 15 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 15 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 15 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 15 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 15 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 15 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 15 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 15 occurrences365–354 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences354–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–332 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences332–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–287 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences287–275 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences275–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences208–196 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences196–185 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences185–174 Mya — about 2 occurrences174–163 Mya — about 3 occurrences163–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–140 Mya — about 2 occurrences140–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences274.4 Mya37.71 Mya365 Mya27 Mya

15 occurrences of Taxites on record, most of them in the Eocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

15 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

8 formations

Hermit Shale — 36.00°N, 112.00°WHermit Shale — 36.07°N, 112.13°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 109.00°WDatong — 40.10°N, 113.10°ECoal and shale Suite — 42.80°N, 41.80°EShoptykol' Suite — 51.10°N, 75.60°EOr' Suite — 51.20°N, 58.60°EHempstead — 50.71°N, 1.45°WBansa — 23.76°N, 81.46°E

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The named rock units Taxites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Taxites and its relatives

Eocene

Where Taxites and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

255 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Taxites, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

10 references

Each of the 15 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Taxites

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iDigBio
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CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Taxites was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTaxeae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1828